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June 5, 1 923.

H. E. STONGE I TIE Filed March 4, 1922 Patented June 5, 1923.

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HARVEY E. STONGE, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, ASSIGNOR TO THE S. K. NECK- WEAR LIMITED, OF TORONTO, CANADA.

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Application filed March 4, 1922. Serial No. 541,202.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARVEY E. SroNen, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, Province of Ontario, Canada, a subject of the King of Great Britain, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ties, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to made-up ties such as are provided with bands passing round the wearers collar and provided with an adjustment for length, and my object is to devise a tie of this type, in which the adjustment is automatic and the adjusting means invisible when the tie is in use.

I attain my object by means of the constructions hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a bow tie constructed in accordance with my invention Fig. 2 a plan view of parts of the same, partly broken away to better illustrate the construction; and

Fig. 3 a perspective detail of the fastening.

In the drawings like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.

1 is a made-up tie which is shown as a bow, though my invention is applicable to any other form of made-up tie. 2 is a neck band made of any suitable material, which neck band is substantially inelastic. At one end of this band is formed a stiffened sheath 7, within which is located an elastic band sec: tion 3, one end of which is connected to the neck band at the inner end. of the sheath, while the other end is secured behind the tie. The other end of the neck band is provided with fastening means whereby it may be connected with the tie, and preferably also with the collar button of the wearer. For this purpose I provide a hook 4 on the end of the neck band adapted to engage in the eye 5 connected to the tie. At the extreme end of the band is formed a metal loop 6 adapted to enga%e over the wearers collar button as shown in ig. 2. Preferably the hook 4 and loop 6 are integrally formed from a single piece of sheet metal or wire, as shown in Fig. 3. The stiffening of the sheath 7 is preferably effected by securing inside the front thereof a thin strip of stiff flexible material 8, such as celluloid. This stiffening device maintains the sheath in properly extended position at all times. The appearance of the sheath is not effected by the expansion and contraction of the elastic band section 3. As the open end of the sheath is hidden behind the tie, the means whereby the adjustment of the band of the tie of the wearers collar is of fected is entirely hidden, and moreover no fastening and adjusting means are required at the back of the neck as in the usual madeup bow tie.

that I claim as my invention is 1. A made-up tie having a neck band,-said neck band being provided with an elastic portion, a non-elastic portion fixedly connected thereto and a stiffened sheath overlapping the junction of the two portions and connected to one of them.

2. A'made-up tie; a neck band; means for detachably securing one end of the band to the tie; an elastic band section secured at one end to said neck band and at the other end to the tie; and a stiffened sheath overlapping the junction of the neck band and elastic band section and connected with the former.

8. A made-up tie; a neck band; means for detachably securing one end of the band to the tie, said band having a sheath formed at its other end; an elastic band section secured to the band within the sheath and at the inner end thereof; and a piece of thin stiff flexible material secured inside the outer side of the sheath.

4;. A made-up tie constructed as set forth in claim 2 in which the fastening means comprises a part connected with the tie and a part connected to the neck band, the latter part being provided with means for engagement with a collar button.

Signed at Toronto, Can, this 22nd day of Feb., 1921.

HARVEY E. STONGE. 

